A woman on the edge of a nuclear precipice
Veteran nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott says a belligerent, ill-informed US president controlled by staff wanting ever-more exotic weapons has raised the risk of nuclear war to a post-cold war...
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Critics leave secret agent neither shaken nor stirred
How has James Bond retained his appeal for six decades? Maybe it's the evergreen allure of the alpha male, suggests Adrian Mourby. James Bond is 60 this year and he is pretty lucky to have made it so...
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Taking the measure of our mobility
Philip Collins went from housing estate to Houses of Parliament. Now, as director of the Social Market Foundation, his interests include the future of the university. Karen Gold reports. The hero of...
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Academic all-rounders stroll from the quad to the crease
The sound of leather on willow bowled over two scholars and enticed them away from their normal fields of study, writes Huw Richards. A political theorist and a materials scientist. A Russian-...
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Lessons from the loss of faith
The credibility of science now rests with co-authors, who need to ensure that they check a paper's validity before it is published, says Robert Park. It has been the summer of lost faith. Each day...
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Passion dies for bride of the state
Higher education has become a slave to its cold cash-monster master - in a humiliating and mutually unhealthy marriage, says Kenneth Minogue. There's an unmistakable touch of menace in the way Lord...
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Footprints in stolen sand
When you're lying on that beach in Belize congratulating yourself that as an ecotourist you're not damaging the environment and are helping the local economy, think again, says Rosaleen Duffy. When...
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Is being black bad for your mental health?
Disproportionate numbers of Afro-Caribbeans in Britain are diagnosed as mentally ill. Is the cause racial or environmental? Geoff Watts reports. The long-standing and deeply troubled relationship...
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Where Joe Bloggs can have his say
'Blogging' has drawn a 50,000-strong crowd for one moonlighting academic. Stephen Phillips finds out what it is and why it's perfect for the keen ranter. Glenn Reynolds finds himself much in demand...
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A search for style 2
Roger Lindsay participated in the essay-marking study purporting to demonstrate that academic assessment is a "lottery" (News, THES , June 28). He says the essays contained no coherent theory and...
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A matter of record
The report on Stephen Whittle ("A right to be Mr and Mrs", THES , July 19), carefully avoided a number of problems and overstates the extent to which society has become more accepting of transsexuals...
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Status tax
The significant finding of the Virgin survey ("Students favour more tax to end fees and bring back grants", THES , July 26) is that more graduates are not securing meaningful long-term employment and...
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In brief 1
Schools and universities planning to drop languages should consider that foreign companies need staff with knowledge of their tongues ("Languages come under threat", THES , July 12). Such graduates...
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In brief 2
I am unsure how to catalogue the statement from the Department for Education and Skills (For the record, THES , July 26) that higher education applications are "a free market". Do I file it under the...
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In brief 3
I've no idea who wrote "A Green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head", (First Impressions, THES , July 26) but can I suggest a competition to compose a limerick starting, "A...